Lot of you guys forget,
long before the fancy equipment existed shooters were able to accomplish great feats of shooting accuracy.

+1...many marksmen before scopes even existed...even then that Russian kid Vasily Zaytsev scored 100s of kills with a rifle that sells today for about $150.

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